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Mobile Security: How to Secure, Privatize, and Recover Your Devices

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Mobile Security: How to Secure, Privatize, and Recover Your Devices

Overview of this book

The threat of hacking may be the most damaging on the internet. Mobile technology is changing the way we live, work, and play, but it can leave your personal information dangerously exposed. Your online safety is at risk and the threat of information being stolen from your device is at an all- time high. Your identity is yours, yet it can be compromised if you don't manage your phone or mobile device correctly. Gain the power to manage all your mobile devices safely. With the help of this guide you can ensure that your data and that of your family is safe. The threat to your mobile security is growing on a daily basis and this guide may just be the help you need. Mobile Security: How to Secure, Privatize, and Recover Your Devices will teach you how to recognize, protect against, and recover from hacking attempts and outline the clear and present threats to your online identity posed by the use of a mobile device. In this guide you will discover just how vulnerable unsecured devices can be, and explore effective methods of mobile device management and identity protection to ensure your data's security. There will be special sections detailing extra precautions to ensure the safety of family members and how to secure your device for use at work.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Mobile Security: How to Secure, Privatize, and Recover Your Devices
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Tips to Help You Protect Your Mobile Device
The History of Social Networking, the Internet, and Smartphones
Index

Protecting the corporations


Before we go too far, we need to define a few elements for you:

  • Corporate security policies

  • Corporate security procedures

  • Frontend network protection

Corporate security policies

Corporate security policies provide a best practice outline that can be implemented by a company to all their employees. These corporate policies help companies minimize risks and provide a framework on how to respond to security issues or incidents. Corporate security polices can include:

  • Rules on how employees connect to the corporate network

  • High-level network configuration information

  • Security definitions and descriptions on how security issues are managed

Corporate security procedures

Corporate security procedures provide details on how a security policy is implemented. One example is if a mobile device is lost then the company will execute a remote wipe on the device. A remote wipe can remove all the data on the device.

Frontend network protection

Frontend network devices are corporate network...